Purpose of the ascension

Question: What is the final destination of a human being’s soul in the process of ascension?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at a conference in Seoul, Korea in 2016.

Again, this is a question that is somewhat complex because of the way most people look at the concept of the soul. Most people would say that it was the soul that descended and it is the soul that will ascend. We have given more complex teachings now where what most people call the soul is actually what we call the four lower bodies, the lower being.

This was something that was created by the Conscious You in order for it to have a vehicle to interact with the four levels of matter. In order to ascend, the Conscious You must return to its original pure state where it is not identified with anything on earth, and then it ascends. In the sense that people broadly use the “soul,” we can say that the soul ascends. In the more specific way that we use these concepts, the soul is actually dissolved and then the Conscious You ascends.

The purpose of the process of the ascension is, of course, that you become an ascended master. When you become an ascended master, you have a choice. You can choose to stay with the earth and then serve to help your unascended brothers and sisters rise in consciousness. Or you can choose to move on to other assignments elsewhere in the spiritual realm. Often new masters choose to stay with this realm, but in some cases there are even newly ascended beings who focus all of their attention on rising even higher.

Ultimately, the process of going up through the previous spheres and the levels of the spiritual realm is to reach what we have called the Creator consciousness. You can become a creator in your own right and you can create a world like the one in which you live, but with your own individual characteristics.